Anywhere in Record to find words in titles, author names, subject headings or chapter titles, that describe your topic

Subject to look for words that are part of authorized subject headings

Titles to look for words that might be in a title or to invent titles you hope exist on your topic

Authors when you aren't sure of the exact name of the person or organization, but know part of it

Browse creates an alphabetical or numeric list beginning with the term you type. Browse when you know:

exactly how the title starts

the author's last name and (at least) first initial

an authorized subject heading used for your topic

the beginning or entire call number

Lower-case letters will find matches of capitalized words also. For example, railroad will
find matches for railroad, Railroad and RAILROAD.

Boolean operators are available only for Keyword searching. The Boolean operator AND is assumed.
You may also create a search string using the Boolean operators OR and NOT. Example: (logging and
lumber) NOT Minnesota.

The Advanced Search Page offers the ability to do more complex searches.

Use the ? character to find matches that contain portions of words. For example, agri?
will retrieve agri, agribusiness, agriculture, agricultural,
agriculturist, etc. In another example, ?ology will retrieve anthropology,
archaeology, psychology, etc. The ? character may also be used to find variant
spellings. For example, wom?n will find both the singular woman and the plural
women.